This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.
This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ. Every encounter with her can only result in an encounter with Christ himself.
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother’s plea and answer it lovingly.
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith – a faith that binds us to the one God.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn’t want her.
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.
A dimple on the chin, the devil within.